So you are here to find out how to check website traffic of any website and even your site as well. Right?
You are in the right place.
In this article, I am going to cover my 5 best practices to check website traffic with free tools.
Let’s get started.
1 SEMRush
SEMRush is your all-in-one for everything starting from keyword research, domain analysis, competition research, etc.
I use SEMRush mostly for keyword research and to check the keyword difficulty of any particular keyword that I am going to write an article for.
Here’s an example of my keyword research on this current topic that you are in. Here you will be able to see a lot of important metrics such as Keyword Volume based on the country you are going to target and even Global Volume as well.
On the other hand, you will be able to find keyword variations, Questions, and even related keywords as well.
The SERP Analysis will show you all the top-ranking pages based on the keyword you are searching for.
So if are planning to rank for any particular keyword, you can easily get an idea of how many backlinks you need to meet those criteria.
But, definitely the more you pay the more you get. It’s always true.
SEMRush comes with a premium subscription as well. So if you are a well-established company, then you can opt for their premium subscription as well, and trust you will get a huge report when you are on a premium version of this.
So feel free to check them out and use this tool wisely.
2 Ahrefs
Ahrefs is one of the popular tools as well in this SEO market. They crawl more than 6 billion web pages every day from more than 200 million websites in their index.
I used their premium version as well, and trust me their interface is just mindblowing and easy to use.
Ahrefs comes with free keyword generator tools that can help you generate keyword ideas for your articles and even for your YouTUbe channel as well.
But, on the free version, you will get very limited data on KD (Keyword Difficulty). So if you are just starting up, then this definitely can help you a lot.
You can also opt for the premium version to boost your SEO journey.
Check out my Complete Keyword Research Guide and get an idea of how you can start your content journey by doing the right keyword research.
3 Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a jampacked, easy-to-use interface tool for beginners. It also comes with a free and premium option for you.
But, you can do a lot with just a Free version as well. This tool is hosted under Neil Patel’s own website and he is a genius when it’s come to SEO and Marketing.
Here’s an overview of how much you can get from the Free version.
You can even get keyword ideas and content ideas as well from the Free version
So as a beginner it’s your perfect tool to kick-start your journey.
4 SimilerWeb
SimilerWeb is a website traffic checker that helps you to get an idea of others’ URL traffic. Here you can get all the traffic sources that a website is gaining.
So you can easily look up your competitor’s website and buildup your own strategy.
Here’s an example of what it looks like.
You can get a Global rank, Total visits, Avg Visit Duration, etc.
Even you can get audience demographics as well. Which is super informative in my knowledge.
Apart from the above, you can get a metric of Display Advertising Traffic, Social Media Traffic, Outgoing Links, Referral Traffic, etc.
SimilerWeb comes with a premium plan also. But, it’s up to you how you are going to use this tool.
So if you are planning to get a full insight into your competitor’s website and want to build a strategy accordingly, this is the perfect tool for you.
5 Google Search Console
Now let’s talk about, what if you want to check website traffic from Google for your own website?
Then the master tool, Google Search Console comes into the field. This is your one tool to check your website performance from site impression, average position, total clicks, etc.
With the help of the Google Search Console, you can check your top-performing queries, pages, and even the countries that it’s mostly ranked for.
So apart from the above tools, this is your must-have tool in your list, and you should have a general idea of how to nurture this tool and get an idea of where to improve.
So here we come to the end of this article.
So I hope you found what you were looking for?
Go ahead and play around with tools and find the best suitable one for your business.
Let me know in the comments below if you have any queries.
